Bug#818942: ITP: python-bitcoinlib -- Easy interface to the Bitcoin data structures and protocol

2016-03-21 Thread Carlo Stemberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Stemberger * Package name: python-bitcoinlib Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Peter Todd * URL : https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Easy

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-13 Thread Carlo
However, I think that we are also entitled to expect jessie release at 8/9 July 2015 maybe. This expectation resulting from my wheezy analysis of last freeze is in line with it. 2013/10/13 Thomas Goirand : > Hi Niels, > > First of all, thanks a lot for planning this well in advance. Much > appre

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-05 Thread Carlo Segre
a part is required. That is, your command would be: --- Archive: ftp.debian.org Uploader: Carlo Segre Action: dm Fingerprint: 8CCC1BA8590FF029D17C708FC1BCD3C72AA28B6B Allow: nexus --- Thanks, this is very helpful Note, you can al

DM upload permission

2013-03-04 Thread Carlo Segre
. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics Director, Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 se...@iit.edu http://phys.iit.edu/~segre se...@debian.o

Bug#669108: general: assorted segfault

2012-04-17 Thread Carlo Marchiori
tools. Thanks again, Carlo. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:06:10PM +0200, ygmarchi wrote: > > Package: general > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm using debian testing. Lately I've b

Bug#645835: ITP: python-wxmpl -- Painless matplotlib embedding in wxPython

2011-10-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: python-wxmpl Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Carlo Segre * URL : http://csrri.iit.edu/~wxmpl * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Python Description : Painless matplotlib embedding

Bug#592197: ITP: libterm-twiddle-perl -- Twiddles a thingy while-u-wait

2010-08-07 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-twiddle-perl Version : 2.71 Upstream Author : Scott Wiersdorf * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Twiddle/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#592190: ITP: libterm-sk-perl -- Perl extension for displaying a progress indicator on a terminal

2010-08-07 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libterm-sk-perl Version : 0.06 Upstream Author : Klaus Eichner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-Sk/ * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl extension

Bug#586938: ITP: flotr -- JavaScript plotting library based on the Prototype Framework

2010-06-23 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: flotr Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Bas Wenneker * URL : http://code.google.com/p/flotr/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : plotting library for the

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-24 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Carlo Segre a écrit : 2. the ifeffit source package is contrib and cannot be built by the autobuilders because of its build time dependence on pgplot5. The latter is causing me much grief and needs to be solved before I work on consistency issues

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-23 Thread Carlo Segre
will consider it as wishlist until I can get the rest resolved. Crankily (but not with the Perl Developers), Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-22 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Marc: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Carlo Segre writes: An alternative which would remove the inconsistency is to make the decision that contrib packages will not be built by the officeial buildd network but have to be built as non-free packages a

Re: definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:37:25PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, There is apparently an ambiguity here

definition of contrib & buildd inconsistency

2010-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
decision that contrib packages will not be built by the officeial buildd network but have to be built as non-free packages are, on the unofficial buildd network. Cheers, Carlo [0] section 2.2.2 of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Steffen Joeris wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:04:28 pm Carlo Segre wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: The current "winning" opinion is to go with the source+throw away binaries route. We are close to being able to achieve this, it is simply that

Re: Bits from the FTPMaster meeting

2009-11-15 Thread Carlo Segre
possible. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 se...@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre se...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Bug#552476: ITP: libgraphics-gnuplotif-perl -- A dynamic Perl interface to gnuplot

2009-10-26 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libgraphics-gnuplotif-perl Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Dr.-Ing. Fritz Mehner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Graphics-GnuplotIF/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ Programming Lang

Re: Release architectures

2009-10-07 Thread Carlo Segre
cover all details of course). What about ia64? carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 se...@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre se...@debian.org

Building contrib packages

2009-05-10 Thread Carlo Segre
tedious. I suspect that there might be others with the same problem. I would much rather not have to deal with non-free but the pgplot5 package is, unfortunately, unique and as of now there is no free replacement for it. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for

Re: ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
overcommitted. I wanted to take this on simply because I use it and it is in an unusable state on i386 right now. Do you have a suggestion for an appropriate team? Perhaps we can ask if they want to take this on? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects

ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
This can be fixed with a known patch. I will be preparing an updated package for upload by the weekend unless I hear from the current maintainer before then. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institu

Re: Bug#517945: ITP: libxray-absorption-perl -- x-ray absorption data for the elements

2009-03-05 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Andreas: On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Carlo Segre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-absorption-perl Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9

Bug#517947: ITP: libxray-spacegroup-perl -- symmetry operations for the crystal space groups

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-spacegroup-perl Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#517946: ITP: libxray-scattering-perl -- x-ray scattering data for the elements

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-scattering-perl Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : x

Bug#517945: ITP: libxray-absorption-perl -- x-ray absorption data for the elements

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libxray-absorption-perl Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : x

Bug#517943: ITP: libchemistry-formula-perl -- enumerate elements in a chemical formula

2009-03-02 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre * Package name: libchemistry-formula-perl Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/svn/libperlxray * License : Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Bug#492673: ITP: libregexp-optimizer-perl -- optimizes regular expressions

2008-07-27 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libregexp-optimizer-perl Version : 0.15 Upstream Author : Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-Optimizer/ * License

Bug#492388: ITP: fox -- Free Objects for Xtallography

2008-07-25 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fox Version : 1.7.7.0 Upstream Author : Vincent Favre-Nicolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://objcryst.sourceforge.net/Fox/FoxWiki * License : GPL Program

Bug#492376: ITP: libwwwbrowser-perl -- Platform independent means to start a WWW browser

2008-07-25 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libwwwbrowser-perl Version : 2.23 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~eserte/src/perl/WWWBrowser/ * License

Re: libcwd in Debian unstable

2008-04-13 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:50:07PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 10/04/2008, Carlo Wood wrote: > > It was added 16 March, that is 3+ weeks ago! :/ > > So, debian-devel@lists.debian.org: can someone tell me why > > libcwd was added as amd64 package, but still doesn'

Re: libcwd in Debian unstable

2008-04-10 Thread Carlo Wood
e: *** 1.0.1-1 0 990 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/non-free Packages 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:44:15PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: pbuilder build with passing -sa option

2007-11-18 Thread Carlo Segre
lderrc --debbuildopts '-sa -v1.5-1' when doing backports. This works with pbuilder as well pbuilder --debbuildopts "-sa" build *.dsc Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice:

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi again Gürkan: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Hello Carlo I have no objection to working on this, being the maintainer of pgplot5. The problem is that there is a bug filed against pgplot5 because it doesn't properly support libpgplot-perl (pgplot-perl or formerly pgper

Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module

2007-09-06 Thread Carlo Segre
ly me...). Carlo [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407462 -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.ii

Re: Getting Debian to use less power?

2007-05-12 Thread Carlo Segre
renders the program of limited utility on my laptop. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre[EMAIL

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:55:48AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: Hi, #396817 was reported back in November. Ian Lynagh, maintainer of GHC, and I both believe that the build was proceeding normally and that on the

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
file. OK, it builds. WOuld you like me just to upload? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL

Re: Need help with RC #396817

2006-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: 2) At least build and upload this package? Hi John: I have it building now. I'll let you know the outcome. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Techn

Re: List of packages with problems wrt release

2006-12-15 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libtk-png-perl (U): in unstable (2.005-3) but not in testing. A request for removal (#389676) has been filed as this is now included in perl-tk. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate De

Re: out-of-date non-free packages

2006-11-29 Thread Carlo Segre
ntly include the non-free repository on the regular buildd network or move the contrib building to this non-free buildd system? Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: One final note, I sopke to upstream and he indicated that "SIXpack" would his prefered name. And so it is now. As I mentioned previously, the package name will remain "sixpack". Hopefully this is satisfactory for you Charles. Carlo On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, g

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-11 Thread Carlo Segre
ackage name is completely different. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-10 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Charles: The program is itself called sixpack. There was an ITP some time ago (2002-2003) for another program called sixpack but the wnpp bug was RFP and it was closed due to 2 years of inactivity. What would you propose for your sixpack binary? Cheers, Carlo On Fri, 10 Nov 2006

Bug#397873: ITP: sixpack -- A full-featured package for XAS analysis

2006-11-09 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sixpack Version : 0.57 Upstream Author : Sam Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/~swebb/sixpack.htm * License : BSD-type Prog

Re: How should we deal with 'pointless-on-this-arch' packages?

2006-10-14 Thread Carlo Segre
somebody else if a user requested the package on an excluded arch. How would you implement with with debtags? Are the buildd's paying attention to this now? Maybe I misunderstand. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Ill

Bug#373208: ITP: libstar-parser-perl -- STAR compliant data file parser for Perl

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libstar-parser-perl Version : 0.59 Upstream Author : Wolfgang Bluhm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pdb.sdsc.edu/STAR/ * License : non-free Programmin

Bug#373207: ITP: ifeffit -- An interactive program for XAFS analysis

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ifeffit Version : 1.2.9 Upstream Author : Matt Newville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/ * License : BSD-type Programming Lang

Bug#373211: ITP: horae -- interactive graphical processing and analysis of EXAFS data

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: horae Version : 062 Upstream Author : Bruce Ravel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/packages/ * License : BSD-type Prog

Re: Use pbuilder, Luke... (Was: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?)

2006-05-14 Thread Carlo Segre
/var/cache/pbuilder/result is writable by the user manually if you want to sign packages. (Currently root:root as installed) even better, just put the pbuilder/result in a user-readable and writable volume (/home/pbuilder for example) and run pbuilder as a normal user all the time. Carlo

access to debian mirror pools

2005-09-20 Thread Carlo Segre
Is this a bug, if so for what package? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#310648: ITP: libchemistry-elements-perl -- Perl extension for working with Chemical Elements

2005-05-24 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libchemistry-elements-perl Version : 0.91 Upstream Author : brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/ * License : GP

Bug#309575: ITP: libtime-stopwatch-perl -- Use tied scalars as timers

2005-05-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtime-stopwatch-perl Version : 1.00 Upstream Author : Ilmari Karonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time * License : GP

Bug#309574: ITP: libmath-combinatorics-perl -- Perform combinations and permutations on lists

2005-05-17 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-combinatorics-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Allen Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Math/ * License : GP

Bug#304291: ITP: libtk-splashscreen-perl -- Toplevel mega widget to display a splashscreen

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-splashscreen-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Stephen O. Lidie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LU/LUSOL/ * License

Bug#304289: ITP: libtk-pod-perl -- Tk Pod browser widget with hypertext capability

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-pod-perl Version : 0.9929 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304288: ITP: libtk-histentry-perl -- Implements an entry widget with history

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-histentry-perl Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#304287: ITP: libtk-gbarr-perl -- Various Tk Perl widgets

2005-04-11 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtk-gbarr-perl Version : 2.06 Upstream Author : Slaven Rezic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SR/SREZIC/ * License : GP

Bug#302397: ITP: libmath-spline-perl -- Cubic spline interpolation of data

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Segre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libmath-spline-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : John A.R. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JA/JARW/ * License :

Re: start-stop-daemon ulimit

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Contavalli
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:11:36AM +0200, Carlo Contavalli wrote: > > [...] > as usual, I forgot the attachment. Here it is.. Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A CA29 9E98 5431 1A68 6975 - Old mail has arrived. diff -x con

start-stop-daemon ulimit

2005-03-31 Thread Carlo Contavalli
t limits, please look at man setrlimit. Please carbon copy replies to my email address, since I'm not subscribed to the list (too high volume) for my internet connection. Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A CA29 9E98 5431 1A68 6975 --

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Well, I'm officially removing myself from any questions of what should be on what CD and whether to use isolinux or not. So don't look at me, I need to focus on making sure boot-floppies work for 3.0, 3.0r1, etc. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...http://www.onshore

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ive. Not sure if slang-wide every was uploaded, either... -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...http://www.onshored.com/>

Re: aacraid driver

2000-12-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Brian Boerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, if you want it, take it up with the Kernel maintainer -- that >> is, file a bug on kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-compact or >> kernel-source-2.2.18pre21 or whatever. >> >> Do not make the request here -- we cannot do anything about it. > I thought

Re: aacraid driver

2000-12-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NOKUBI Takatsugu) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> I'm the developer of the aacraid driver. I've noticed some old posts on > >> your > >> web site w/r/t this driver. If the maintainer of the debian kernel is > >> including this driver

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
g this on one of three machines which are presumabley set up in the same way, I am presuming that it is some incorrect configuration file somewhere. If anyone has an insight, I would appreciate it. My next move is to purge all X packages and reinstall... Carlo Segre Assoc. Prof. of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology

boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-09-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am on debian-boot for a long time. The truth is that a lot of people are > doing small things but nobody leads. No management. No decisions. I would agree with this. Enrique would probably appreciate someone taking over management and coordina

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And an updated version is at > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for inclusion in that document? Do you agree that it should be adapted to the Developer's Reference so it c

Re: SGML packages in debian (also ITP XML::*)

1999-05-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Stevie Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was digging back through the mailing list, and found this message > from around the first of April... the list of packages below caught > my eye... [...] > > OpenXML (should be free) > > XML4j (not sure if utterly free, but close) > > Cacoon

why equivs won't (yet) work for metapackages

1999-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >I will use equivs to get the skeleton, then change the needed things >(I think I add an option to specify a README.Debian file on the >command line or in the control file). equivs builds the package, but >it leaves the tree. This is the one thing I will ch

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:16:18PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> Well put, Dale. I think you have done the correct thing here. If >> the vi emulation is not sufficiently complete to work as expected >> of vi, and esp. if it's real

Re: a question about scsi installs

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Daryl" == Daryl Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daryl> i would like to install debian on a dell poweredge 4300 with a Daryl> PERC/2 SC raid scsi controller from AMI. as far as i know there Daryl> is no support during a debian installation for this card. Daryl> there is support for this

Re: CALL for PAM support

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "BenC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BenC> This is just a little reminder concerning PAMification of BenC> potato. I want to urge all maintainers who's programs do any BenC> sort of authentication or account management to seek PAM patches BenC> (or just enabling PAM if the progr

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "phil" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: phil> Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe "vi" on the boot disks should simply say "vi didn't fit on >> the bootdisk, so please use the self explaining 'ae' which will be >> started right now" and forget about the bothersome vi

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: joseph> It didn't work right console, that was my issue. It may work joseph> better now, but the thing is still messy and the editor joseph> doesn't allow you to do basic editor functions. How can you sit there, with your bare face han

Re: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of this talk about the Debian boot system is IMHO just "debating society" stuff. I have seen very few well thought-out, practical suggestions in this thread. > "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Steve Lamb wrote: >> Two seperate functio

Re: Installing on old computers (WAS: Re: Time to rewrite dpkg)

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Please -- all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Eduardo" == E O Fredrik Liljegren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduardo> On a computer without CD-ROM one has to start by Eduardo> disk, but that's ok. Do you mean floppy, or the hard-disk option? Eduardo> Then you get the option of NFS, but not

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Philip> How about creating a new section ``profiles'' for them, so Philip> that they are all grouped together in dselect ? I think it's a little too early for new sections. The boot-floppies team, in particular, wanted to see someone imp

intent to package: docbook-xml, simplified docbook-xml

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Since I am interesting in having all the major free SGML stuff included into potato, I intend to package docbook-xml from Norm Walsh (which also includes the simplified docbook-xml DTD). *However*, I am extremely busy as well. If someone else would step forward to package these materials, I'd be

offered for adoption: addressbook

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
If anyone would like to take the 'addressbook' package from me, I would appreciate it. I don't really have the time and tcl/tk knownledge to maintain this package properly. There are a few outstanding bugs which are pretty minor; the big bug is to break up the package into the command-line and g

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that > > it's easy to pick these babies out. > When this idea was tossed aro

LDP news (was Re: Hardware working with Linux)

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. BTW, Lars Wirzenius, a cofounder of the LDP, just resigned as leader. I'm not sure who will step up to the job. However, whoever takes the job, I hope that the next leader of the LDP follows the p

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what about creating empty packages only to satisfy dependancies and > > be able to install loosy related set of packages. Metapackage > > seems to be the right name for such creature ;) > People already thought of that :) it was discussed on -gtk-gnome

Re: Listing of Debian hosted cutting-edge software

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Brimhall, GeoffreyX L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Over the last few days quite a few cutting-edge development projects have > been posted. In particular, > > Qt2.0 beta at http://master.debian.org/~heiko/qt2/, > Configurator Panel at http://linuxlabs.lci.ufrj.br/~lages/cpanel > > Does debian

Re: Source for install program

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 07:40:57AM -0700, Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > I'm trying to find the source code to the debian install program (Boot 1 > > and > > 2) but can't locate it on the FTP. Can anyone point me to it? > > See the package bo

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> Usually, you don't need to announce a maintainer change to the >>> lists if it's already been agreed to by both the old and new >>> maintainers, just mark something like '* New maintainer' in the >>> change

Re: Hints about future improvements

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the ideal solution would be to have a caching proxy based on > rsync to communicate with the upstream mirror, and http (or a new > apt method) to communicate with apt. I was actually thinking the other day about why couldn't apt support rsync://

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On May 19, Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >This would make is easier for programs like ipmasq or leafnode or > > >whatever to put hooks to start themselves up or shut themselves do

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 > > weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that > > archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes

Re: Hey, Y'all, check out my new improved "Free Software Research Paper Project" web site!

1999-05-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "brock" == R Brock Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: brock> And you really can't argue with a FEELING. Oh -- well, I guess not. In fact, that kinda points out that there's no really reason for carrying on any further debate. brock> Yes, I don't doubt you have much experience... but only in

Re: Hurray! and thanks! Re: Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> Thanks to Tony Mancill for pointing out: Dale> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/setup/3c5x9setup.html Dale> The 3c5x9setup program takes the 509 out of PnP mode and lets Dale> you set the base and IRQ addresses and write them into th

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Fumitoshi UKAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information > about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x. > Should I send it as wishlist to BTS? Well, I've got it for the developers-reference side. I'll wait until

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is why I suggested the new area, apart from main, non-free, and > contrib. People who want the updates should have a nice, easily > accessable place to find these packages. From a system > administration standpoint, it's nice to know EXACTLY where

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Gordon Deane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think Debian should have high quality Slink gnome binaries, because > not everyone can afford to run unstable and building from source is > quite a lot of work. Also, Redhat have this shipped :-) We don't add new upstream versions into stable after r

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a long history of overly optimistic freeze dates :-) I'd like > to try something else this time. I note, though, that if we do manage > to freeze on July 1, we'll be able to have a release in time for the > Linuxworld Expo in August. That w

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> "warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}'" if Joey> $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; } Ben> This is a nice solution. Well, actually, in tonight's upload, I only enabl

Re: Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mitch> GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in Mitch> the 0-99 range added to Debian? Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use >doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings >whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize. > >I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY instal

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There is no requirement that I know of that any identification must be > > written in English. > > It is practically very important to know what is acceptable and > what

Re: Intent to package t-gnus

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Takuro KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi,I'm packaging software, t-gnus. > (ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/GNU/elisp/chamonix/gnus/) > > t-gnus is latest branch of Semi-gnus. > Semi-gnus is "Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI." > and Debian package is available. (main/news). > > SEMI is "L

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Voila. Elegant, uses the existing packaging system (i.e., no need to > > skip the select step in dselect), > > This is the main point against your approach. We introduced the tasks and > profiles to avoid going through the list of 3000 packages in

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